The Politics of Usability
A Pratical Guide to Designing Usable Systems in Industry
(Sprache: Englisch)
Why This Book, Why Now? It is now widely recognized that in the development of IT systems, the technology driven focus of the past has been eclipsed by a concern for user satisfaction and user productivity. It is well known that usability engineering helps...
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Why This Book, Why Now? It is now widely recognized that in the development of IT systems, the technology driven focus of the past has been eclipsed by a concern for user satisfaction and user productivity. It is well known that usability engineering helps make systems easier to use and more relevant to business needs. The benefits of producing usable computer systems have been proven in careful dollar or pound calculations and any computer user who has interacted with a system designed for usability will enthuse about the benefits and refuse to go back to the bad old days. More and more organizations are starting to take usability seriously. Along with Microsoft and Apple and other IT organizations, we now find banks, insur ance companies, multi-national pharmaceuticals and many other non-IT corpora tions starting to "do something about usability". It seems as if there is plenty of material explaining how to do it. HCI (Human Computer Interaction - or CHI, Computer Human Interaction in the USA) has been studied in academia for several years and there are a range of books on usability engineering for practi tioners from systems engineering and user interface design to usability evaluation. However, as many practitioners have found, although you do need to understand the theories and be familiar with the techniques, applying them in a commercial context is not a straightforward matter.
The Politics of Usability is written by Usability professionals from a variety of non-IT organisations, who have dealt with the issues involved in getting started: how do you get started, how do you secure funding, how do you sell your message, what resources are available to help you? once you have convinced your colleagues of the benefits, what methods should you use in your environment, how do you work with applications developers? what happens when your department expands - how do you build a functional team, can you work effectively across international borders? The authors take you through the process of starting and running a Usability Group, alert you to the political problems you may encounter in getting off the ground and suggest some solutions. They also discuss ways to manage Usability once the idea has taken off, including ideas about where Usability should 'sit'within the organisation, how to set up a Usability Lab and how to manage an expanding, international function.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Politics of Usability “
- Introduction: The Politics of Usability - Lesley Trenner and Joanna Bawa- The Politics of Funding: Justifying your Existence: Making a Business Case for Usability and Beyond - Chris Nodder
- Selling Usability Services - Dermot Browne
- The Politics of Set Up: What to do with the Money once you've got it: Overcoming Inertia within a Large Organisation - Tasnim Kaderbhai
- Integrating Usability into Systems Development - Alison Crerar and David Benyon
- A Structured Approach to User Interface Design - Dermot Browne and John Friend
- Make Usability Part of the Culture - Janet Saunders and Alan Arnfeld
- The Politics of Survival: Keeping Usability on the Political Map: A Change is as Good as a Test - Maggie Williams
- Consultants with Clout - Cathy Thomas
- Cultivating an Effective Client Relationship to Promote a User-Centred Culture - Nichole Simpson
- The Politics of Expansion: How to Work Effectively on an International, Multi-cultural Level: Oh, So Thats the Way You Do It Over There! - Ingrid Towey
- Spreading the Word: Introducing Usability Evaluation on an International Scale - Joanna Bawa
- Standards and Style Guides: A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Tom Stewart
- Usability Practice in the United States: Perception vs Reality - Patricia Dorazio
- Round the World in 18 days - Susan Dray and Lawrence Rowland
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Lesley Trenner , Joanna Bawa
- 2000, XXII, 194 Seiten, Maße: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3540761810
- ISBN-13: 9783540761815
Sprache:
Englisch
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